Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.

Netherworld – Over The Summit

CD – Glacial Movements

The Netherworld project, supported by the Roman producer Alessandro Tedeschi (founder of the label Glacial Movements), has traditionally been characterized by ambient sounds both isolationist and ethereal. Now the road is open to a narration that assumes more sensitive and fascinating insertions. The texturesseem less abstract than in the past but field recordings still peek out alongside intense violin work, synthetic loops and discovered sounds. The pieces progress in fascinating and sinuous directions, while the sound-design unravels in an equally refined way – less austere than in Tedeschi’s former works, perhaps due to the producer’s many collaborations over the years, which have helped to refine his sensitivity and dilute the excesses of minimalism. Circular harmonizations, pulses and percussive sound emergencies fit together with more subdued drones and soft eddies that are filtered and calibrated, united in slow and solemn tempi. In “Crystallized Words” we can also discern vocal fragments, while in other tracks there are a diversity of fluctuations and manipulations that come from natural sources. In the same way there’s an extensive use of external multi-effects that succeed in expanding and twisting the sound in new shapes. The artwork, too, is the result of an intangible reductionist quality, not by chance commissioned to Bjarne Riesto, a specialist of Nordic photography, perfectly aligned with the spirit of this album.